Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk issued an apology for recent statements on F1 visas in a speech at the Univrsity of Florida on Tuesday.

The TPUSA head has come under fire for directly echoing a left wing talking point on immigration: that we should be “stapling green cards to the diplomas” of foreign students, allowing them to live in the United States and poach jobs from native Americans.

That particular phrase has previously been echoed verbatim by prominent Democrats such as Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama, raising questions as to where Kirk and the ostensibly conservative organization TPUSA get their talking points playbook.

Kirk is currently in the midst of a complex fragmentation war within the MAGA community, as many young conservatives view TPUSA as social liberals using Trump branding to secure power and influence.

FOX News host Tucker Carlson even made a veiled reference to Kirk’s “stapling green gards to diplomas” statements in a monologue on Monday.